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Author: Thomas Foth
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Under the Nazi regime in Germany a calculated killing of chronic mentally ill patients took place. Nurses executed this program in their everyday practice. However, suspicions have been raised that psychiatric patients were also assassinated before and after the Nazi regime, suggesting that the motives for these killings must be investigated within psychiatric practice itself. This book highlights the mechanisms and scientific discourses in place that allowed nurses to perceive patients as unworthy of life. This study analyzes patient records as inscriptions that actively intervene in interactions in institutions and that create a specific reality on their own accord. The question is not whether the reality represented within the documents is true, but rather how documents worked in institutions and what their effects were. It is shown how nurses were actively involved in the construction of patients identities and how these documentary identities led to the death of thousands of humans.
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- Series: Pflegewissenschaft Un Pflegebildung (Book 7)
- Hardcover: 279 pages
- Publisher: V&R unipress (February 28, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3847100629
- ISBN-13: 978-3847100621
- Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.5 x 1 inches
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The book depicts how the medical-psychiatric profession in Germany from the early years of the 20th century led the way to a systematic mass murder which lasted up until after the second world war 1949. What began as psychiatric diagnoses of incurable psychiatric illnesses evolved into a justification for - and the implementation of - a systematic mass murder in "the name of science" and as a financial calculation.
The unique point of this book is the role the German "Schwester" (nurse) played first in creating and manufacturing the psychiatric diagnosis and than in the murder process.
The first half of the book follows the chronological and methodical history of how a psychiatric diagnosis is born. I found the sub-chapter titled "The modification of the right to complain" (p.64), where the author gives a summary of Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France 1974-1975, extremely illuminating.
The second half follows with extreme attention to detail the documents of a psychiatric "file" concerning Anna Maria Buller, a woman from Hamburg who was locked up in psychiatric facilities from 1931 up to her murder in 1943 in the gas chamber of the psychiatric incaceration facility in Hadamar, her death attributed to "enteritis colitis".
The book gives minute and methodical attention to each step in the transformation and manufacturing of Buller from a human being into a psychiatric patient, and the active role played in this action by the "Schwester".
These truly valuable and accurate observations of the author are based on the life-long suffering and murder of a person from the past although the psychiatric processes depicted here are a matter of daily routine in psychiatric facilities all over the world up to this very minute.
By Ari Zighelboim
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